Fräulein Else #[nn]

Manuele Fior's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's celebrated novella arrives with a cover that immediately draws you in — a young blonde woman with searching blue eyes gazes upward against a backdrop of a half-timbered building rendered in soft, dusky pinks and browns. The watercolor-like delicacy of Fior's linework gives the whole image a quietly unsettled, dreamlike atmosphere that feels perfectly suited to Schnitzler's interior world. Published by avant-verlag in 2010, this German-language graphic novel is a beautifully crafted artistic undertaking with Fior handling every creative role himself, from pencils to color.